July 11, 2023 4:55 am
After a successful first tour of duty in April, goats from Allegheny Goatscape will return to Chartiers Creek in Canonsburg. “Goatscaping” will occur in the same place as the last time, the Adams Avenue and Four Coins Drive sides of the creek. Cleanup efforts are due to the vegetation around it that could leave the borough liable for damages if a serious flood hits, as told by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. The goats can safely reach areas that humans can’t in the creek. The goal of using the goats is to improve Canonsburg’s score with the USACE and meet the Department of Environmental Protection’s regulations. Canonsburg Borough President Eric Chandler spoke highly of the work of the animals landscaping and says their return is for unfinished business with some trees around the creek. “Our plan was to come behind them and cut the trees down,” said Chandler. “Once the goats come in, we’ll have a group that will come in and cut the trees down.” After the goats complete their landscaping, a tour of the area will be scheduled with the USACE to show their improvements.
July 11, 2023 2:47 am
Charges against Vincent Scrbacic were dismissed Monday, after the victim failed to appear in court for his preliminary hearing. The 43-year-old Steelton man was facing charges of recklessly endangering children and another adult back in May. Police were called to scene regarding a domestic disturbance between the victim and Scrbacic. Scrbacic and the victim were arguing and police allege that it continued as the two drove away in the victim’s car. Police say that while the car was in motion traveling east on Route 844 in Hopewell Township, Scrbacic removed the key from the ignition, put the car in neutral and pulled the emergency brake. The victim was in the driver’s seat and there were 2 infant children under the age of 3 in the back. No injuries resulted. As a result of the charges being dropped against Scrbacic, he was released from jail.
July 11, 2023 2:38 am
A Washington man will face trial on aggravated assault and firearms charges for his actions in the Wal-Mart parking lot on the Fourth of July. Dametric Medlen, 22 waived his charges to court at his Monday morning preliminary hearing. According to South Strabane Township Police, Medlen is accused of ramming his vehicle into the vehicle of his ex-girlfriend in the parking lot at Trinity Point before fleeing to the nearby McDonald’s on foot. He was found in a bathroom in possession of a loaded hand gun when police apprehended him. According to the criminal complaint, Medlen’s ex-girlfriend had a PFA against him at the time. In addition to the aggravated assault and weapons felony charges, he faces several reckless endangerment, simple assault, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct charges. Medlen is in the Washington County Jail without bond. He will be formally arraigned on August 24.
July 11, 2023 1:11 am
A Washington County man was prevented from bringing a loaded handgun onto his flight this morning when Transportation Security Administration officers at Pittsburgh International Airport detected it in his carry-on bag. Authorities say the 9mm handgun was loaded with 11 bullets, including one in the chamber. The officer spotted the gun in the checkpoint X-ray machine. Airport police confiscated the weapon and the man, a Canonsburg resident, now faces a federal financial penalty. Passengers are permitted to travel with firearms, but only unloaded weapons and only in checked baggage.
July 10, 2023 2:47 pm
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Police say the suspect in the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people in the Chicago area and triggered a nationwide scare has died. Police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said Monday that officers, firefighters and EMTs responding to a report of unresponsive person about 4 p.m. Sunday found James Lewis dead in his home in the city. Police say he was 76. Police say the death is not considered suspicious. No one was ever charged in the deaths of seven people who took drugs laced with cyanide. But Lewis served more than 12 years in prison for sending an extortion note to Johnson & Johnson, demanding $1 million to “stop the killing.”
July 10, 2023 2:46 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar has been stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another inmate at a federal prison in Florida. Nassar is serving decades in prison after admitting sexually assaulting athletes at Michigan State University and at Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, including Olympic medalists. Two people familiar with Nassar’s stabbing tell The Associated Press the attack happened Sunday at United States Penitentiary Coleman. The people say Nassar is in stable condition Monday. One of the people says Nassar was stabbed in the back and the chest. The people were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the attack and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity.
July 10, 2023 5:09 am
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese police and a news report say a man with a knife killed six people and wounded one more at a kindergarten. They say the attack occurred in Lianjiang, a city in the southeastern province of Guangdong. Police in Lianjiang said a 25-year-old man was arrested. Employees who answered at the Lianjiang police station declined to give more details. A news outlet, Dafeng News, cited an unidentified witness as saying the attacker’s child had been struck earlier by the car of one of the people who was killed at the school. It said one of the people killed was a teacher at the kindergarten.
July 10, 2023 5:09 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Heavy rain has spawned extreme flooding in New York’s Hudson Valley, killing at least one person and forcing road closures. The flooding comes Sunday night as much of the rest of the Northeast U.S. prepares for a major storm. Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus says rescue teams were attempting to retrieve the body of a woman in her 30s who drowned after being swept away while trying to evacuate her home. Two other people escaped. Officials say the storm has already wrought tens of millions of dollars in damage. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency for Orange County just after 9 p.m. Sunday.
July 10, 2023 5:06 am
BRUSSELS (AP) — Nearly 50,000 Russian soldiers have died in the war in Ukraine, according to a new statistical analysis. Moscow has tried to hide the human toll of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, censoring local media and cracking down on activists who document Russia’s expanding cemeteries. Now, two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, working with a data scientist in Germany, have used Russian government data to shed light on one of Moscow’s closest-held secrets. Using inheritance records and official mortality data, they calculated how many more military-aged men have died since February 2022 than expected. They found that around 47,000 more Russian men under age 50 died between February 2022 and May 2023 than normal.
July 10, 2023 5:05 am
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Russia’s war on Ukraine will top the agenda when U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts meet on Tuesday and Wednesday. The focus will be what to do about Ukraine’s future membership of NATO, and the security guarantees the country might need to ensure that Russia doesn’t invade again after the war is over. The leaders are set to endorse new defense plans should President Vladimir Putin try to broaden Russia’s war beyond Ukraine and westward into allied territory. Sweden’s accession is up for discussion too, as Turkey delays the Nordic country’s entry into the world’s biggest security organization. The leaders will also set a new, higher target for defense spending.
